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APPROPRIATIONS

Senate Dems seen dragging their heels on EPA-Interior spending bill to avoid riders

Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter

E&E Daily: Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Republican appropriators yesterday said Senate Democrats may be deliberately skipping committee votes on a fiscal 2012 spending bill for U.S. EPA and the Interior Department because they are afraid it would give committee members a chance to add anti-regulatory language to the bill, as has been done in the House. The only Senate appropriations bill that has not received a markup is the Interior and EPA bill, and no schedule has been set for it.